Chapter 12: The Indestructible Deng
1 Richard Evans, Deng Xiaoping
and the Making of Modern China (New York: Viking, 1993),
186–87.
2 See, for example, “The Army Needs to Be
Consolidated: January 25, 1975,” Selected
Works of Deng Xiaoping: 1975–1982, vol. 2, trans. The Bureau
for the Compilation and Translation of Works of Marx, Engels, Lenin
and Stalin Under the Central Committee of the Communist Party of
China (Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 1984), 11–13; and “Some
Problems Outstanding in the Iron and Steel Industry: May 29, 1975,”
in ibid., 18–22.
3 “The Whole Party Should Take the Overall Interest
into Account and Push the Economy Forward: March 5, 1975,” in
ibid., 14–17.
4 “Priority Should Be Given to Scientific Research:
September 26, 1975,” http://web.peopledaily.com.cn/english/dengxp/vol2/text/b1080.html.
5 “The Army Needs to Be Consolidated: January 25,
1975,” in Selected Works of Deng
Xiaoping, 13.
6 “Things Must Be Put in Order in All Fields:
September 27 and October 4, 1975,” in ibid., 47.
7 Deng Xiaoping, “Memorial Speech,” as reproduced
in China Quarterly 65 (March 1976):
423.
8 “The ‘Two Whatevers’ Do Not Accord with Marxism:
May 24, 1977,” in Selected Works of Deng
Xiaoping, vol. 2, 51, note 1 (quoting February 1977
editorial advancing the principle); see also Roderick MacFarquhar,
“The Succession to Mao and the End of Maoism, 1969–1982,” in
Roderick MacFarquhar, ed., The Politics of
China: The Eras of Mao and Deng, 2nd ed. (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1997), 312–13.
9 MacFarquhar, “The Succession to Mao and the End
of Maoism, 1969–1982,” in MacFarquhar, ed., The Politics of China, 312.
10 “Speech at the All-Army Conference on Political
Work: June 2, 1978,” in Selected Works of Deng
Xiaoping, vol. 2, 132.
11 “The ‘Two Whatevers’ Do Not Accord with Marxism:
May 24, 1977,” in ibid., 51.
12 “Respect Knowledge, Respect Trained Personnel:
May 24, 1977,” in ibid., 53.
13 Stanley Karnow, “Our Next Move on China,”
New York Times (August 14, 1977);
Jonathan Spence, The Search for Modern
China (New York: W. W. Norton, 1999), 632.
14 See Lucian W. Pye, “An Introductory Profile:
Deng Xiaoping and China’s Political Culture,” in David Shambaugh,
ed., Deng Xiaoping: Portrait of a Chinese
Statesman (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2006).
15 “Emancipate the Mind, Seek Truth from Facts and
Unite As One in Looking into the Future: December 13, 1978,” in
Selected Works of Deng Xiaoping, vol.
2, 152.
16 Ibid., 154.
17 Ibid.
18 “Uphold the Four Cardinal Principles: March 30,
1979,” in Selected Works of Deng
Xiaoping, vol. 2, 181.
19 Ibid., 181.
20 Ibid., 182–83.
21 Until 1983, Deng was Vice Premier and Chairman
of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Congress. From 1981
to 1989, he was Chairman of the Central Military Commission and
Chairman of the Advisory Commission.
22 Evans, Deng Xiaoping and
the Making of Modern China, 256.